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  1. Posted

    Anybody that has a Cuttlecart should get this file from Paul immediately. It's impressive and a lot of fun. You just need two keyboard type controllers. The Star Raiders touch pads work as do the Keyboard and Kids controllers.

     

    -Chuck

  8. Posted

    Cassidy,

     

    Just to confuse things even more, there is also a 2732B that uses 12.5 volts.

     

    Here's what I've found -

    2732 - 25V

    2732A - 21V

    2732B - 12.5V

    2732C - ?? Never seen one

    2732D - 25V

     

    The 21V chips seem to be the most common. If you have no idea what chip you have you can start at 12.5v and step up the voltage until it works.

     

    Does your burner ask you if you want your data burned in intel format? I have run across that somewhere in the past and if you choose intel format it scrambles the order of the bytes in the file.

     

    -Chuck

  10. Posted

    Cassidy,

     

    Just a couple of thoughts after reading Paul's post.

     

    Check the programming voltage of your eproms. A chip burned at the wrong voltage won't work right.

     

    You should be able to burn an eprom with a 4k bin file and then read that eprom back into another file and play it on your emulator. If not the bin file is not being burned correctly.

     

    Not all 7404's are created equal, I've had the best success with the low power 74LS04 version.

     

    Hope that helps,

     

    Chuck

     

    "A person never stands so tall as when stooping over a classic game."

  14. Posted

    Atari70's,

     

    Try adding - in front of the o as in

    Dasm combat06.txt -f3 -ocombat06.bin

     

    It's also kind of a convention to name your source combat06.s instead of combat06.txt.

     

    -Chuck

  15. Posted

    'A better Pac-Man' is the one most often stuck in my 2600. If you don't have it, you should order it, it's well worth buying. Ms. Pac-Man is my second favorite. Jr. Pac-Man suffers more from poor color choices than anything else, it is tougher to see.

     

    -Chuck

  17. Posted

    Junie,

     

    On the picture all connections are on the side of the board shown. (Back of board) The colors don't mean anything. The 74LS04 has 6 logic inverter gates on it, the cart only needs one of them. That's why only 4 wires are used. Atari chose to invert the chip select line on their cart design, you need to invert it through the 7404 to make it compatible with an eprom or a standard prom. If you want to see the spec sheet for a 74LS04 it's at http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/DM/DM74LS04.pdf

     

    BTW Ubersaurus, I have lots of eeproms that are over 20 years old, I've never had one lose it's contents yet. Quite a few games from smaller companies came on eproms. You probably have some in your collection.

     

    -Chuck

  19. Posted

    I would be interested as long as it fits in a standard Atari case and was already drilled and traced to accept a 2732 and the LS7404. $1.00 does not seem unreasonable to me.

     

    Randy at Hozer has custom boards made with a custom bankswitching circuit for 16k games. I believe Chris Wilkson (Hope I got his name right) makes them for him. I have been unable to find Chris on the web to see if his awesome bankswitch board is available to the general public.

     

    I'm not worried about a shortage of real Atari cases. I enough of them with bad labels or that just don't work that it's not a problem. The 20 or so Pac-Invaders I made were almost all Star-Raiders carts, I seem to get lots of those with no keypad and or bad labels.

     

    -Chuck

  21. Posted

    I have found Paul's testcart indespensible. If you ever need to test large quantities of controllers, including keypads and paddles it's a real timesaver. I also have been using it to help adjust the color on my 2600's and test all the switches. It is a lot more user friendly than Atari's diagnostic cart. If you sell systems or controllers don't hesitate to get one.

     

    I give it 2 joysticks up. (This was an unsolicited endorsement)

     

    -Chuck

  23. Posted

    I forgot effects and amps! A portion of our living room is devoted to them. I have a Marshall small stack, an old Ampeg VT22, and a couple of small Fenders. (A Sidekick Reverb 25 and a Champ.) The effects are an original Thomas Crybaby, EH Big Muff PI, and an RP-100. I don't use the noisy Big Muff much but I keep it for sentimental reasons. No classical training here, I have more of a Johnny Ramone style. My wife says she forbids me to get any more guitars, but she did get me a left handed Strat for my birthday. and she puts up with all my games.

     

    -Chuck

  24. Posted

    Great observation Joel! I have a 67 Gibson Flying V, a mid 80's Strat (Japan) and a lefty Strat (Mexico). I also have a couple of left handed acoustics (Takemine and Ibanez)and a cheap electric bass. Everything is strung left handed. No Pac-man guitar yet though.

     

    -Chuck

  25. Posted

    I have ordered from Hozer too, the games I have bought are worth every penny. Randy is also pretty fast making up the carts. I really like "A Better Pac-Man". It's the 2600 Pac-Man that Atari's could have been.

     

    -Chuck www.zutco.com

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